Andrew Green

1 week ago | devex.com | Andrew Green

UNAIDS is about to get a lot smaller. As a result of the global health funding crisis, the agency is set to let go of more than half of its full-time staff, shrinking from 608 to about 280 positions, according to a communiqué seen by Devex. The organization has promised that no staff member living with HIV will lose their job. The cuts don’t stop there. UNAIDSwill also close offices in 39 countries, reducing its presence to 36 — although some of those offices will serve multiple nations.

3 weeks ago | devex.com | Andrew Green

Presented by Boehringer IngelheimA massive budget shortfall has forced the World Health Organization to dramatically reduce its scope, with the agency cutting more than half of its departments and dropping five of 12 senior managers. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement that WHO departments would shrink from 76 to 34 during a briefing with member states this week.

3 weeks ago | theforsaken.substack.com | Andrew Green

It is now four days past the deadline for the Trump administration to finish its review of foreign aid. For organizations across Africa that provide HIV services, their future depends on the outcome. They are still waiting. The review, announced immediately after Trump took office in late January, upended the global HIV response. It put an abrupt pause on all HIV programs supported by the U.S. government. Some were subsequently cancelled.

3 weeks ago | devex.com | Andrew Green

Powerful private actors are facing increased scrutiny for the role they play in determining health outcomes. But what, exactly, is a PPA? They include the range of private foundations, financial institutions, and corporations that are increasingly shaping health outcomes for people around the world. And as they come into focus, so does a growing effort to hold them accountable when they undermine people’s health.

4 weeks ago | theforsaken.substack.com | Andrew Green

When you talk to the people running the organizations that sustain Uganda’s HIV response, April 19 has taken on a near-talismanic quality. This, they were promised, is the date by which the United States government will finish its review of foreign aid. The Trump administration announced that audit on January 24, coupled with an order that any program Washington was supporting immediately stop work until the review was complete. It is difficult to convey how chaos-inducing this was.